Just caught up with the fact that Allan Holdsworth has died, which is sad news. He was clearly quite an extraordinary guitar player, a real guitarists' guitarist, though he was usually too fast and technical for my liking.
With Bundles he turned Soft Machine into a different sounding band, but this is not the time or place to gripe that. For instance, I wouldn't dream of suggesting that he hijacked the band's reputation to use it as a personal showcase, as some long-standing SM fans might. Instead I'll post Allan's hard-rockin' composition from Gong's Gazeuse album, recorded a couple of years later:-
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